Broomstick wrote:he was French businessman and he was her mistress,
Er... really?
Yeah, really
I met him a couple of times. Always struck me as the 40-year-old creep type, but he was definitely French and yes, he was a businessman. Improbable, yes, unlikely, none of us believed her for months... but yeah, it really was as advertised.
I just wonder what the hell her parents had to say about the whole mess. But, not surprisingly, she wasn't on speaking terms with them.
Really, at a certain point I resolved not to ask questions. I already know more than I wanted.
I think he meant that is should be "she was his mistress" rather than "he was her mistress"
Aside from that though, the whole mistress thing is much more accepted in France, heck, just look at what their current leader has been up to lately. They dont seem to make a scandal out of folks sex lives the same way those of us with more of a victorian heritage do.
"Prodesse Non Nocere." "It's all about popularity really, if your invisible friend that tells you to invade places is called Napoleon, you're a loony, if he's called Jesus then you're the president." "I'd drive more people insane, but I'd have to double back and pick them up first..." "All it takes for bullshit to thrive is for rational men to do nothing." - Kevin Farrell, B.A. Journalism. BOTM - EBC - Horseman - G&C - Vampire
Actually, I remember reading the Virginia Dental thread and thinking to myself that there were places only a few hours of the city here like that... And the same might even apply for this thread.
Okay, I'm trying to determine if that was a typo or not, and now I'm really confused. Was that a typo, or are you actually saying he was her mistress?
Granted, I've seen and taken part in stranger. Safer by far and legal, but stranger.
Typo
She was his mistress.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.Leonard Nimoy.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Broomstick wrote:One of my college classmates was 21 and she had four kids, all singletons. The oldest was seven, so you do the math.
I don't know if it was a point in her favor or not that they all had the same father - he was French businessman and he was her mistress, and he had a wife and family back in France. I don't know if it's a point in his favor or not that he bought her and the kids a home and was paying her college tuition. It seemed a pretty weird situation to me.
If she had had a set of twins or two yeah, she could have had 7 by 21.
I suspect this sort of thing is more common than we'd like to think.
his name wasn't Humbert ny any chance? (O.k. shameless Nabakov refrence)
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
Anyone on the board who has worked in or has heard tales from relatives who have worked in maternity units can doubtless attest to the number of people who pass through the wards who are unfit in one, some, or every single way imaginable to bear and raise children.
I have certainly heard horror stories aplenty from my mother, but I think none sum up the type more aptly than a youngish woman whose first words upon being told by her doctor that she was pregnant were "So when should I lay off the heroin, then?"
In those parts of the country where hospitals are small, understaffed, overmanaged & underfunded and have to rely on an even smaller number of city hospitals to handle serious cases, the absolute last thing needed are high numbers of babies born to parents who are unfit to bear. The hospitals are squeezed for the resources to care for the newborns, especially those with health problems or addictions caused by their mother's lifestyles. The state and its adoption services have their work cut out for them trying to handle those children who need to be removed from their parents' care. Money for welfare, rehab, etc. is scarce as state budgets are tight. And I dare say the majority of these children who are actually brought up by their degenerate parents only create further educational, law-enforcement, unemployment, rehab, and health care burdens down the road.
As far as I am concerned, the social burden these troubled people and their children place on society requires that any viable means to prevent them from bearing more children be implemented. But I doubt I'll live to see that happen.
Simplicius wrote:As far as I am concerned, the social burden these troubled people and their children place on society requires that any viable means to prevent them from bearing more children be implemented. But I doubt I'll live to see that happen.
Not until the bizarre attitude towards preventing easy access to free (or very low cost) and effective pregnancy prevention comes to pass, as well as a shift in attitudes toward sex and sex education.
After that changes, and one or three or ten others, maybe things will improve.
